HealthIT

• Provide leadership ensuring that implementation teams, consisting of workers in the Roles described above, function cohesively.
• Apply project management and change management principles to create implementation project plans to achieve the project goals.
• Interact with diverse personnel to ensure open communication across the end-users and with the support team.
• Lead implementation teams consisting of workers in the Roles described above.
• Manage vendor relations, providing schedule, deliverable, and business information to health IT vendors for product improvement.
• Coordinate implementation-related efforts across the implementation site and with their Health Information Exchange partners, troubleshooting problems as they arise.
• Apply to these activities an understanding of health IT, meaningful use, and the challenges practice settings will encounter in achieving meaningful use.

Classes and schedule will be determined by the students background, either HealthCare or IT.

Implementation Manager (HealthCare)

• Component  5 - History of Health Information Technology in the U.S.
• Component 10 -Fundamentals of Health Workflow Process Analysis and Redesign
• Component 18 - Planning, Management and Leadership for Health IT
• Component 19 - Introduction to Project Management
• Elective*

Implementation Manager (IT)

• Component  2 - The Culture of Health Care
• Component 10 -Fundamentals of Health Workflow Process Analysis and Redesign
• Component 18 - Planning, Management and Leadership for Health IT
• Component 19 - Introduction to Project Management
• Elective
  
  *Choose one other HealthIT Component from the NPCC Schedule of Components